Pink Ribbon Inc. (“PRI”) has adopted this Privacy Statement in order to demonstrate to you our commitment to privacy and to inform you of our policies with respect to information collected on this website. By visiting or using this website, you acknowledge and agree to the terms of this Privacy Statement.

Security and Privacy

PRI web site uses security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. We store the information in a database in a secure environment at our data center.

We will never share, sell, or rent individual personal information with anyone without your advance permission or unless ordered by a court of law. Information submitted to us is only available to employees managing this information for purposes of contacting you or sending you e-mails based on your requesting information.

Newsletters

You will be added to Pink Ribbon's email newsletter list only if you register to receive newsletters via a form on the Pink Ribbon website. You may opt-out of receiving our newsletters by clicking on the opt-out link included in every email newsletter we send.

Forward-to-a-Friend Functionality

If you feel that information about Pink Ribbon could be useful for a third party you know (e.g. your friends or family members etc.), you may use our forward-to-a-friend functionality. If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about Pink Ribbon, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Pink Ribbon stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.

Blog

If you use our blog feature on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit in a publicly-viewable blog comment can be read, collected, or otherwise used by anyone who reads the blog or who visits the URL of the blog post you have chosen to comment on. We are not responsible for non-Pink Ribbon use of this information.

Information Collected by PRI

Automatic Collection of Anonymous Information

Pink Ribbon International has a strong commitment to internet privacy. When you visit our website, like when you visit most other websites, certain anonymous information about your visit may be automatically logged, including the server name and IP address through which you access the internet (such as "aol.com" or "earthlink.net"), the date and time you access our site, the pages you access while at our website, the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site, the Internet address of the website to which you link if and when you leave this website by clicking on a link at this website. We also may track browser types to help us understand our visitors' needs related to our web site design. We also use the capability to track when a URL has been clicked. We use this functionality to track which links were clicked and in what quantity, as well as the aggregate number of links clicked.

This information is not personally identifiable. We use this information to generate statistics and measure site activity to improve the usefulness of the PRI site to our visitors.

Personally Identifiable Information

Your submission of personally identifiable information to us is entirely your choice. You may visit and browse our website without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself to us. However, you may also choose to disclose personally identifiable information about yourself by conducting business with us. We may collect personally identifiable information about you if you:

communicate such information to us;

subscribe to receive our Newsletter or other communications;

make an on-line donation;

purchase a product from one of our corporate partners and donate a portion of the purchase price to PRI.

The personally identifiable information we collect may consist of contact information (such as your name, email address, postal address or telephone number), your preferences (such as where you go on our site), financial and transaction-related information (if you make an on-line donation to us), and any other information you communicate to us (for example in an email or phone call).

You may review and change your information with us at any time by clicking on the link with your name on the site or similar found in the emails sent via our system.

We may also collect personally identifiable information from you about others. This information is also subject to the terms of this Privacy Statement.

PRI does not sell or otherwise disclose user information outside the organization. This policy has no exceptions. We do not sell or exchange your information with any other organization, public, private, or non-profit.

Personally identifiable information we collect may be used for such purposes as:

providing users with information through our Newsletter and other communications;

responding to your questions inquiries, comments and instructions;

maintaining records about donations;

maintaining the security and integrity of our systems;

pursuant to legal process or any other purpose required by law.

Please see the Choice/Opt-Out section below for your options regarding the use of personally identifiable information about you.

Choice/Opt-Out

In order to provide service to you, we will occasionally send you communications related to your transactions, security or the administration of our website. From time to time, we may also wish to send you our Newsletter or other communications such as those concerning upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive our Newsletter or such other communications, please send an email containing your request to newsletter@pinkribbon.org. If you are making an on-line donation, you may also check the box next to the statement indicating that you do not wish to receive such communications from PRI.

Cookies

PRI’s server, or the servers of companies that we use to help us operate our site, may place a "cookie" on your computer. A "cookie" is a small piece of data that can be sent by a web server to your computer, which then may be stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Cookies allow our computer to recognize your computer while you are on our website and help customize your online experience and make it more convenient for you, for example by allowing us to save information related to a previous contribution. The information collected from cookies may also be used to improve the functionality of our website. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site.

Most web browser applications (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator) have features that can notify you when you receive a cookie or prevent cookies from being sent. If you disable cookies, however, you may not be able to use certain personalized functions of this website.

External Links

Our website may contain links to other websites controlled by third parties. While we try to link only to websites of reputable organizations, please be aware that PRI is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements provided by other websites before you provide personally identifiable information to them. We will endeavor to inform you when you are leaving our website.

Notification of Changes

Any new policy will be posted on our site at least one week prior to its taking effect. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, or the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our website.

Security

We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to help protect your personal information. Among other things, we:

use industry-standard secure encryption software to protect information that you submit to us over the secure portions of our website;

restrict access to your personal information to only those persons who need to know that information to provide information to you and for other authorized purposes consistent with this privacy policy (including, but not limited to, our employees) and who have agreed to hold such information confidentially and use such information only for the purposes for which that information was provided;

maintain our web servers in an environment in which access to such servers is limited to authorized individuals and is subject to a variety of electronic, physical and procedural security measures.

In spite of the safeguards that we maintain, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network is 100% secure. Accordingly, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us and you must do so at your own risk. However, once we have received your information, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to protect its security.

Children's Privacy

This website is designed for use by persons aged 13 or older. We do not solicit or knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If we nevertheless receive personally identifiable information from an individual who indicates that he or she is, or whom we otherwise have reason to believe is, under the age of 13, we will delete such information from our systems.